Cynical Quote by Emma Donoghue

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think…

— Billy Tauzin

I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best…

— Hunter S. Thompson

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

— Ira Sachs

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

— Amelia Barr

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

— Michel de Montaigne

We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to…

— Nhat Hanh

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was…

— Nora Roberts

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time,…

— Jack Kerouac

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with…

— Jack Kerouac

I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile…

— Dan Wells

All of us from time to time look back and think we could've handled things differently or better.

— Gladys Berejiklian

Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would…

— Jonathan Alter